Permadeath?

[PermaDeath Man]

Is there permadeath in this game?
If so, how does that work? thank!

[worm_master]

?? long as u save regularly if ya die, u can load back up, from where u saved, with all ya goodies, so in that sense permadeath dosnt exist... But theres no respawning

[Ihateeverybody]

I assume you are asking if there is an "Iron Man" mode (Honestly don't get the reference). There is not. If you want to when you die, you can manually delete your games. I wouldn't.

If it was a fair death, I just play a game of Kohan 2 Kings of war to fight to get my soul back and reload.

[felmari]

sure. your character does not re-spawn so any thing you did up to your last save is gone for good.

[xybolt]

No.

What you can do is to have a rule when starting a new game: if you die, then it's game over. You have to go to the main menu and delete your game saves. Granted, this require some discipline but I would advise to go this route because it happens that you die by something that is not totally under your control, such as trap rocks that got touched by your follower and it was just that hard enough (ping pong effect with the surface) to kill you if it hits your character.

[meta]

don't ever post again

[Ozymandias]

The mod Skyrim SafeSave System Overhaul 2 is first designed for safe saves, but it has a hardcore mode to prevent you from reloading a save. I've never tried it, but you can check it out:
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/70179

"I'm A True Hero": Kind of like a permadeath mode, but less punishing. If you die, the game will not reload the last save at all. You can't even do it from the main menu. You have to leave the game, turn on a second plugin, then reload the game and reload that last save. It's tedious and wastes a lot of time - making you far more careful while actually playing so you can avoid the whole boring process. You can still make the manual save mentioned in the "I'm Not A Milk Drinker" option above so you don't lose any playtime between the last autosave and when you actually want to quit the game, but without quitting the game and loading the secondary ESP, you won't be able to load any game except the most recent manual save from the main menu. The autosaves are your safety net (along with the secondary ESP) for those cases of "Skyrim being Skyrim".

[Ihateeverybody]

Originally posted by xybolt:

No.

What you can do is to have a rule when starting a new game: if you die, then it's game over. You have to go to the main menu and delete your game saves. Granted, this require some discipline but I would advise to go this route because it happens that you die by something that is not totally under your control, such as trap rocks that got touched by your follower and it was just that hard enough (ping pong effect with the surface) to kill you if it hits your character.

That and Dragons and Bandit Mauraders Triggering a Kill scene when you have 90% health. Yeah I got Violens and shut that stuff off for NPCs, Thats just BS (But of course if I do it, its ok. WINK, WINK)

[HoBoMiKe]

if you never save the game, you can emulate the same effect as "permadeath."

however, if you often lose so much progress after dying (like several hours worth) it's a worse punishment trying to re-accomplish everything you did than it is to just delete that folder alltogether and start anew.

[Quevik]

Originally posted by PermaDeath Man:

Is there permadeath in this game?
If so, how does that work? thank!

There can be Permadeath in this game.

Step 1: You buy the game.
Step 2: You start playing.

Congratulations, Permadeath Man! You're in Skyrim.

[Yoti 薛]

If you mean the followers, there is a chance of dying, but most of the time when their health is low, unless you kill him yourself, they will start crawling and regenerate, even if the follower dies Reload or regenerate via console.

[sdack]

The game allows loading and saving of the game state at any time. There is no builtin limitation like a permadeath. One can always go back to a previous savefile. Only you can limit yourself if you wish.

[Malthar]

if you want permadeath just delete your save when you die

[Docsprock]

When my character dies, I start a new game. I have done that for many years.

[Liquid Inc]

i usually give myself 3 "deaths" before i restart when i do play "permadeath" (so the odd glitch doesn't end my game when it wasn't my fault)
If i die because of my own actions, IE, i stood on a mine in Fallout, or a trap in Skyrim, then that overrides those 3 and i restart right there.

I keep my saves though, until i run out of lives, because it's a Beth game and Bugs can and very much do happen. If you delete them all, you have no points to go back to if a quest is bugged out, and restarting the game because "X" quest doesn't work is a big kick in the teeth....